Braxton
Braxton reached its high-water mark in 2014 at number 120, and has been recorded 66,654 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 172nd. About 65,000 Braxtons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Braxton boys named Braxton
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 66,654
- Estimated living today
- 65,000
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 120th
- Rank in 2025
- 172nd
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 823 / 65,831
How old the living Braxtons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 66,654 babies given the name since 1885, about 65,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 49,000 of them are children and 240 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Perhaps a habitational surname from the village of Branxton, in Northumberland.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Braxtons
- Braxton Bragg (1817–1876)Confederate Army general
People named Braxton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Braxton is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Braxton is most concentrated in Utah (4.8×), Idaho (3.1×), Wyoming (2.4×), Kentucky (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular boys’ names the year Braxton peaked:
Braxton elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand boys | Braxton | 1,101 | 28th |
| England and Wales boys | Braxton | 587 | 497th |
| Ireland boys | Braxton | 116 | 314th |
| Scotland boys | Braxton | 54 | 378th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Braxton | 20 | 346th |
| France boys | Braxton | 10 | 6,585th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Braxton against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.